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The volume contains a critical appraisal of the differentially specialized functions of left and right human cerebral hemispheres in verbal and visuospatial domains respectively (formerly cerebral dominance). Individual differences have been considered in relation to statistical concepts in the assessment of cerebral lateralization.Read more...

"Proceedings of a NATO Research Workshop on Individual Differences in Hemispheric Specialization, held October 15-19, 1984, in Maratea, Italy"--Title page verso."Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."

Description:

ix, 406 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Contents:

Defining The Issues.- Individual Differences in Hemispheric Specialization: Sources and Measurement.- Cerebral Laterality: Rube Goldberg at the Bauhaus?.- Implications of the Right Shift Theory of Handedness for Individual Differences in Hemispheric Specialization.- Is Cerebral Lateralization a Graded or a Discrete Characteristics ?.- Individual Differences in Cerebral Anatomical Asymmetry and Circulatory Asymmetry.- Individual Differences in the Anatomy of the Corpus Callosum: Sex, Hand Preference, Schizophrenia and Hemisphere Specialization.- Hemispheric Specialization and Regional Cerebral Blood Flow.- Individual Differences in Electrophysiological Asymmetries.- Individual Differences in the Asymmetry of Alpha Activation.- Age and Sex Related EEG Configurations in Normal Subjects.- Appendices.- Attentional Factors and Individual Differences Reflected in the EEG.- Longitudinal Auditory Evoked Responses and the Development of Language.- Differences between Anhedonic and Control Subjects in Brain Hemispheric Specialization as Revealed by Brain Potentials.- Hemispheric Differences in Relation to Smoking.- Interval Histogram Analysis of EEG Hemispheric Activity in Schizophrenia.- Individual Differences in Behavioural Indices of Cerebral Orientation.- Age and Sex Differences in Lateral Asymmetries to Visual and Tactile Stimuli.- Estimating Cerebral Asymmetry and Interhemispheric Transmission Time from Individual Differences in Bimanual Response to Lateralized Stimuli.- Self-report of Neuropsychological Dimensions of self-control.- Handwriting Posture and Cerebral Organization.- Asymmetries in Psychopathology and Individual Differences.- Individual Differences in Dynamic Process Asymmetries in the Normal and Pathological Brain.- The Evolving of the Homeostatic Brain: Neuropsychological Evidence.- An Argument concerning Schizophrenia: the Left Hemisphere Drains the Swamp.- Cerebral Laterality & Schizophrenia: a Review of the Interhemispheric Disconnection Hypothesis.- Individual Differences in Cerebral Lateralization: Homeostatic Brain Functions of Schizophrenics.- Cerebral Laterality and Psychopathic Disorders.- Contributors.